April is national poetry month, and there’s a national contest that combines the love o poetry and love of pets that Coastal Family Magazine is supporting locally.
The 3rd Annual "Paws for Poetry" contest challenges kids to write sonnets to spaniels, and prose for persian cats. To help celebrate, budding Emily Dickinsons and Edgar Allan Poes are encouraged to participate.
To enter, children ages 5-12 are to write a poem to, and provide a photo of, their favorite animal friend and send them to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it by April 5, 2010. No exceptions can be made, as the entries must be sent to the national level by April 15.
Original poems of any length may be submitted in one of two categories: Group One (ages 5-9) and Group Two (ages 10-12). Coastal Family Magazine will submit all entries to the national contest, as well as choose a local winner in each category. Savannah writers Ted Carter and Vaughnette Goode-Walker will choose the local winners, and each winner will receive a gift certificate to a local toy store.
The national grand prize winner in each category will receive a $50.00 Amazon.com gift card. Two runners-up in each category will receive a $25.00 Amazon.com gift card. Children's author, poet, and Iraqi war veteran Thad Krasnesky, writer of the upcoming "That Cat Can't Stay" (Flashlight Press, 2010) is the contest judge. Krasnesky will also be providing winners with signed copies of his new book.
The Poetry Society of Georgia held a recent event at the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences featuring poet Waqas Khwaja.
The museum’s poetry series is co-sponsored by the Telfair Museum of Art, Southern Poetry Review, AASU’s Department of Language, Literature and Philosophy, The Live Oak Public Libraries, the Book Lady bookstore, the Savannah Book Festival and the Grassroots Arts Program.
The Grassroots Arts Program is supported in part by the Georgia Council for the Arts (GCA) through the appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly and administered by the City of Savannah's Department of Cultural Affairs. GCA is a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Khwaja is an associate professor of English at Agnes Scott College in Macon, and has edited several anthologies of poems translated into English from Pakistan’s seven major languages, including Modern Poetry from Pakistan, a National Endowment for The Arts project available from Eastern Washington University Press in March 2010,Cactus (1986) and Mornings in the Wilderness (1988).
He has published three collections of original poetry, No One Waits for the Train (2007), Six Geese From a Tomb at Medum (1987) and Mariam’s Lament (1992), a literary travelogue, Writers and Landscapes (1988), and others.
Comments